Cricket News

Sussex and Northants are locked in equal third after Richard Levi guarded against a final-day calamity in Northants' run chase

Chris Read's last match at Trent Bridge ended with a first defeat of the season, by eight wickets against Worcestershire, to throw the Division Two promotion race wide open

Liam Norwell took the final three wickets in Leicestershire's second innings to finish with a first-class career best return of 8 for 43

Lancashire have been spirited against the Championship leaders but the weather looks set to frustrate their attempts to close the gap

Sussex are still standing entering the final day as the Division Two promotion scrap gets serious

Rory Burns continued his eye-catching record against Hampshire by scoring 63 as Surrey battled from a first innings deficit to lead by 45 at the Ageas Bowl

Mark Cosgrove put up lone resistance as Leicestershire's slump shows no signs of abating

A century for Marcus Trescothick has probably sounded the death knell for Warwickshire's membership of Division One of the County Championship

Three wickets for young pace bowler Lukas Carey gave Glamorgan some satisfaction as their encounter with Derbyshire headed for a rain-wrecked draw

Billings' stand-ins behind the stumps are dropping chances, but rain at Chester-le-Street has left the match heading for a stalemate

Worcestershire require another 103 with eight wickets intact to inflict Notts' first defeat of the season and strengthen their promotion hopes in the process

A rain-ruined affair at Headingley is likely to mean that Yorkshire and Middlesex will enter the final three games of the season still fearing the drop

Jack Leaning and Andrew Hodd have made limited impact in Andrew Gale's first season as coach but they stirred themselves as Yorkshire cast uncomfortable glances towards the foot of the table

Haseeb Hameed's dogged 85 not out could prove to be one of the most important innings of his career

Rory Kleinveldt claimed 5 for 50 as Sussex were forced to follow on by Northants at Wantage Road

Surrey's England U-19 batsman stood firm to leave his side well on top at the Ageas Bowl

Kent skipper Sam Northeast scored more than half his side's runs before he was last out for 110 in the Specsavers County Championship match against Durham

Skipper Mark Cosgrove did his utmost to rally winless Leicestershire after the departure of their coach but by the close of the second day a season of struggle remained unrelenting

Riki Wessels' 60 prevented Worcestershire from taking a decisive grip on their top-of-the-table encounter but Nottinghamshire still have work to do to avoid defeat

Keith Barker's half-century mitigated some of the damage but Warwickshire were again left facing an uphill battle to avoid defeat